Top performance from wider booms: Wide booms are an option on trailed sprayers, as Peter Hill reports

摘要

Spraying at 36m to extract yet more productivity from skilled operators and sophisticated equipment is no longer the sole province of growers who prefer to run self-propelled equipment.Two of this season's sprayer newcomers with 36m capability are trailed machines - and one can even go to 40m for those who really want to push the envelope. In theory, moving tramline centres from 30m to 36m apart and stretching boom width to match willgain a 20% increase in spraying output. Likewise, making the more ambitious jump from 24m to 36m should see a 50% gain in productivity.